Xu Xingchen ignored the gossip and pulled Jun Haoyue away. Her mind was full of things about the pond. Filling the pit required cement and sand. Cement probably couldn't be bought here, so she had to buy it from the computer. But there was plenty of sand.
At night, after Jun Haoyue fell asleep, Xu Xingchen went out with a flashlight. Jun Haoyue had been busy all day and must be exhausted, but she had rested for the whole afternoon, so she wanted to get the points done at night so that she could go directly to haul yellow sand tomorrow.
Xu Xingchen found the place with the most yellow sand based on his memory and returned home contentedly. After returning home, he went to Jun Haoyue's room to take a look. After making sure that he was sleeping soundly, Xu Xingchen returned to his own room.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Xu Xingchen left, Jun Haoyue opened her eyes, and a smile flashed in her clear eyes. Xu Xingchen was too stupid and didn't notice that he was following her from beginning to end.
The next day, when he went to collect yellow sand, he happened to pass by Wang Muling's field. Xu Xingchen took a look and found that the crops in the field had grown two or three centimeters taller overnight, but all the crops were drooping, and many of them had wilted, and the tips of the leaves had turned yellow.
After noticing Xu Xingchen's gaze, Wang Muling's face became even more smug. She stood in the middle of the land with her hands on her hips, as if she was afraid that others would not know that it was her land.
Xu Xingchen looked at the situation and understood most of it. She walked a few steps closer and saw that there was fresh soil a few centimeters below the roots of the crops. It was obvious that Wang Muling had pulled up the crops in order to make them grow faster.
"What? Are you jealous because my land is growing better than yours?"
Wang Muling folded his arms and looked at Xu Xingchen with a smug look on his face.
Xu Xingchen sighed. Almost all the people in the village were so stupid. When would she be able to lead this group of people to become rich and then go back quickly?
"Do you think that if you force the growth of seedlings, your crops will mature faster than others? You'd better stop this behavior immediately!"
Xu Xingchen looked at Wang Muling coldly. She felt a little angry. She had cultivated the seeds with great difficulty, but they were all ruined by these people. They were obviously almost starving to death, but they still insisted on seeking death. It was really unreasonable and stupid!
Wang Muling's eyes flashed with panic when she heard Xu Xingchen say this, and then she shouted in a hoarse voice, "What do you mean by 偃苗助长 (meaning to encourage growth)? I don't understand, but yours isn't growing as well as mine, and yet you come here to yell at me? Don't you think that's funny?"
Xu Xingchen sneered. She shouldn't have bothered with such trivial matters. She turned around and was about to leave, but Wang Muling stopped her. "Xu Xingchen, why are you running away? Is it because my crops are growing well? It seems that you don't have much real ability. You are just pretending and acting."
Wang Muling looked at Xu Xingchen sarcastically. Xu Xingchen glared at her without hesitation. "When you brag, please don't forget where you came from."
Wang Muling was stunned for a moment, with anger on her face, but she stammered and couldn't say anything in response. Xu Xingchen pulled Jun Haoyue away, leaving Wang Muling standing there angrily.
After digging the pond, Xu Xingchen began to fill the hole with the sand and cement she had found. When she bought the cement, her heart ached. If she didn't go back quickly to get the money she spent here reimbursed, her savings would be all gone.
Xu Xingchen and Jun Haoyue worked for two days before they finally cleaned up the pond. They also brought the fish and shells for Munduner. Xu Xingchen was delighted. Once the fish pond was built, she would be one step closer to bringing wealth to the whole village.
However, Xu Xingchen encountered another problem, that is, anti-seepage cloth. He couldn't buy anti-seepage cloth in the interplanetary shopping. But if there was no anti-seepage cloth, the water in the pond would seep to the bottom in three to five days.
Xu Xingchen kept thinking about this matter, so much so that she was distracted while eating. Ice Face's mission this time was really too difficult. She was a researcher, not an engineer, so why did she have to deal with so many messy things?
"What's wrong?"
Jun Haoyue's clear voice came, and Xu Xingchen came back to her senses. She took a few bites of her rice and said sullenly, "It's okay."
She felt that Jun Haoyue might not understand what anti-seepage cloth was, so it would be useless to explain it to him. She might even have to explain it to him for a long time.
"Don't you know how to prevent leaks?"
Xu Xingchen suddenly raised her head and found that Jun Haoyue seemed to be more versatile than her. He actually knew a little about building a fish pond and even knew how to prevent leaks.
"We can compact the sand to increase the density of the soil, which will prevent leakage better. Of course, if we have the materials..."
Xu Xingchen could no longer hear the rest of Jun Haoyue's words. Her mind was full of the sentence "If there are materials". Why didn't she think of this? If she couldn't buy anti-seepage cloth, she could buy raw materials and make some. It turned out that she was only one piece of plastic away from success.
Xu Xingchen looked at Jun Haoyue and smiled brightly, then said happily, "Thank you."
Jun Haoyue, who had just been talking, stopped. He stared at the smile on Xu Xingchen's face, and then he couldn't help but laugh.
After dinner, Xu Xingchen quickly bought a piece of plastic sheet and started to make a simple anti-seepage sheet with Jun Haoyue. They stacked the plastic layer by layer, added some activated carbon in the middle, and then tied the plastic tightly. A simple anti-seepage sheet was ready.
Xu Xingchen looked at the anti-seepage cloth on the ground, and the smile on his face grew wider, as if he could already see all kinds of fish swimming in her pond.
"But the anti-seepage effect of ours is definitely not as good as that of a proper anti-seepage cloth, so we still have to tamp the sand as you said."
Jun Haoyue smiled and nodded, and in the afternoon the two of them took the rammer to the pond to tamp the soil.
The stone rammer was heavy, but after working for a while, Xu Xingchen's face was already covered with crystal beads of sweat. Her cheeks were slightly red, and her small nose was densely covered with a layer of sweat beads. After feeling Jun Haoyue's gaze, Xu Xingchen raised her head and smiled at Jun Haoyue. The weather was gradually warming up, and Jun Haoyue felt that the smile on her face was more dazzling than the sun behind her.
"If we don't do it now, we won't be able to finish it today."
As Xu Xingchen spoke, she lowered her head and tamped the soil again. She raised her sleeves high, revealing two slender white arms. Jun Haoyue looked at her for a long time before lowering his head and starting to work.
The two worked hard for the whole morning, but they had only tamped half of it. Xu Xingchen sat exhausted on a half piece of wood beside him, cursing Ice Face a hundred times in his heart.
"ah--"
A shrill scream was heard, and Xu Xingchen and Jun Haoyue stood up together. They looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was Aunt Wang who had tripped and fallen to the ground. She was crawling on the ground, flapping her limbs like an octopus, looking very funny.
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